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Intel 915G thrashed by ATI's Pentium 4 challenge |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 09 November 2004 |
ATI launched two new chipsets yesterday but it still doesn't
want to talk about its Pentium 4 IGP offering. Both of the chipsets it launched only play in the AMD sphere. However, we managed to get some numbers of ATI's
RS400 chipset matched with Intel's own i915G graphic. Intel calls it Extreme Graphics 2.
 Intel 915G thrashed by ATI's Pentium 4 challenge
The numbers are based on 1024x768 with no FSAA and AA. Intel 915G won't run Commanche 4 at all and Counter Strike: Source on DirectX 9 settings. RS400, the Radeon Xpress 200 scores 30.8 FPS while the i915G scores not so bad in this test - 27.7 FPS in DX 8.1 mode.
In Doom 3, ATI scores 13.8 FSP, more than double Intel's 6 FPS, on Far Cry 1.3 training ATI scores 24.6 FPS while Intel scores only 10.8, on Splinter cell ATI scores 36.5 while Intel gets 23.6. In Quake 3 results are tight but ATI still wins 112 to 106.7 FPS. In UT2004 ATI scores 27.8 while the i915G manages 18 FPS.
ATI outperforms the Intel chipset in every single segment, and this means that the ATI steed will perform well, and is likely to get some design wins based on these advantages.
We still don't know when ATI will launch it, but it might happen either later this quarter or in Q1 of 2005 at the latest. We would bet on Q1, as it's getting too late to launch it now.
I guess ATI is doing a better and better job of making chipsets. OEMs like integrated graphics and an ATI sticker might be just the job.
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